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Brothel to get the bucks

Shady Lady Ranch can be stud farm, officials say, but health concerns linger



For the Shady Lady Ranch brothel, this is where the rubber meets the road.

The brothel 150 miles northwest of Las Vegas won final approval on Tuesday for its plans to hire men and start servicing women.





The Nye County Licensing and Liquor Board signed off on a compliance agreement that will allow for the practice to take place so long as the male sex workers wear condoms and undergo weekly health tests.

"Now we have to find a guy and get it going," said Jim Davis, who owns and helps operate the Shady Lady with his wife, Bobbi.

Davis said the small bordello could have its first stud on staff in as little as two weeks.

But not everyone is satisfied with the arrangement.

Two licensing board members, Nye County Sheriff Tony DeMeo and County Commissioner Butch Borasky, voted against the Shady Lady's plans.

"I have issues with it," DeMeo said after Tuesday's meeting. "I don't feel all the health issues have been addressed."

DeMeo is worried that female customers won't -- and maybe can't -- be subjected to the same sort of pre-sex examinations that men undergo in most of Nevada's legal brothels.

As a practice, DeMeo said, prostitutes wash their customers and check them for signs of disease before getting down to business. Without some similar procedure for female customers, he said it could increase the chances of someone contracting a venereal disease, even with the use of a condom.

"I don't want to see that happen. I don't think anybody else does either," he said.

In December, Bobbi Davis persuaded the Nevada State Health Division to grant her what amounts to a special variance to state codes that define licensed prostitutes as women, with requirements for weekly testing of "cervical specimens."

Nye County's compliance agreement is a "mirror image" of the version approved by state health officials, said Ron Kent, the county's chief deputy district attorney.

Under the agreement, latex condoms are mandatory, and all male prostitutes must submit monthly blood samples and weekly "urethral specimens" to ensure they remain disease free.

Jim Davis said his wife has received more than 100 applications from prospective working men, including "one or two from overseas." About 10 of the applicants seem promising.

"It's going to be a tough thing," he said. "We've got to pick the right guy."

Ideally, he said, they are looking for handsome men who are not too old and not too young. At the minimum, they need men who are ready to "entertain whatever lady walks in and be able to give her a fine experience," he said.

So what if a man walks in and wants that same fine experience from one of the brothel's new staff members?

Jim Davis offered the same answer his wife has been giving: They hope to cater to women, not gay men, but if a man asks to see an all-male lineup, they can't exactly discriminate.

Then again, they also can't make their sex workers do anything against their will.

Jim Davis said his wife will conduct all the job interviews. It will be up to her to choose the man destined to become Nevada's first legal male prostitute, or "prostidude" as some have taken to calling him.

The only thing Davis knows for sure is who isn't in the running.

"I'm not eligible," he said. "I'm 78 years old. She's not going to pick me."

Review-Journal writer Lynnette Curtis contributed to this report. Contact reporter Henry Brean at [email protected] or 702-383-0350.

COUNTY RENEWS LICENSES HELD BY CONVICTED BROTHEL OWNER

Nye County officials have renewed the licenses of a brothel owner who pleaded guilty last year to bribing a county commissioner in hopes of expanding his sex business empire.

But the real news may be who might end up buying Maynard "Joe" Richards' embattled brothels: Dennis Hof.

During Tuesday's meeting of the Nye County Licensing and Liquor Board, the well-known owner of the Moonlite Bunny Ranch near Carson City confirmed he is in negotiations to buy Richards' businesses.

it is unclear whether the potential deal includes all three of Richards' brothels near U.S. Highway 95 and the castle-shaped strip club he built in Pahrump amid controversy.

Hof could not be reached for comment.

Tuesday's vote marked the second time Richards' licenses have been renewed since he was sentenced in July on a federal charge linked to his attempt to bribe Candice Trummell.

The then-county commissioner secretly recorded her meetings with Richards at the behest of the FBI.

Richards was indicted in 2006 on two felony counts of wire fraud and pleaded guilty to one of the charges last year.

He was sentenced to spend one year in a Las Vegas halfway house and five years on probation, and he was ordered to pay a $250,000 fine. He is appealing portions of his sentence.

Nye County Chief Deputy District Attorney Ron Kent said county officials intend to hold a hearing to decide whether to take action against Richards' brothel and liquor licenses "in the near future."

Until that happens, however, the board has little choice but to approve the quarterly renewal of his licenses or risk violating the man's due process rights, Kent said.

Trummell, who left the commission several years ago and now lives in Clark County, said she doesn't understand what is taking so long.

"They should have had the show-cause hearing before this renewal ever came up," she said. "Unfortunately, Nye County continues to side with the person who confesses to wrongdoing instead of doing what's in the best interests of the citizens of Nye County."

County officials also renewed Richards' three brothel licenses and two liquor licenses when they came up for quarterly review in October.

Hof has made a name for himself in Nevada and nationwide with headline-making promotions and a beyond-the-parlor, reality-television series on HBO called "Cathouse."

Nye County Sheriff Tony DeMeo, a licensing board member, said Hof has talked about trying to open an operation in Southern Nevada similar to the Moonlite Bunny Ranch.

Nine rural Nevada counties allow licensed brothels, but prostitution is illegal elsewhere in the state, including the population centers of Clark and Washoe counties.

LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL

whatchuwant

Well, you just quite the van business, right Armchair???? HMmmmm???

I think you should take your van and get a cock-rock-n-roll-ready-cross-country van trip!

armchair_warrior

lol i won't make it as a male ho, i'm too picky wouldn't end up making any money .

bohuma

Most male prostitutes make the big bucks from male customers. The owner is dreaming if he thinks there's going to be a huge influx of women wanting a male prostitute - he'll get lots of guys wanting another guy though. Same reason that gay porn pays the male models a lot more than straight porn does.